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, “I arrive at my own city, ⁂⁂.”[92] And this _city_ is explained by the ancient scholion as being “the Horizon ⁂ [or, as Lepsius more accurately translates it, ‘der Sonnenberg’] of my father Tmu.” It is no earthly city that is thought of, but an eternal one.

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Footnote 92:

I take this opportunity of correcting my former translation, where the preposition ⁂, which twice occurs in the passage, is both times rendered by the same word, _from_. But the sense of a preposition really depends upon the verb which it follows. The same English word will not suit the French _de_ in ‘s’approcher _de_’ and ‘s’éloigner _de_.’

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